Pinball Construction Set

by: Bill Budge

Publication date: 1983
Topics: Apple II games, Simulation games
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Language: English
Item Size: 815.9K

Pinball Construction Set (PCS) is a video game by Bill Budge published by Electronic Arts. It was released for the Apple II and Atari 800 in 1983 and was later ported to other platforms, such as the Commodore 64 and DOS (as a booter).

Pinball Construction Set created a new genre of video games—the "builder" or "construction set" class of games. With PCS, users can construct their own virtual pinball machine, by dropping controls onto a table. Controls included bumpers, flippers, spinners and other standard pinball paraphernalia. Attributes such as gravity and the physics model could also be modified. Users could save their creations and develop custom artwork to go along with them. Tables could be saved on floppy disks and freely traded; Pinball Construction Set was not needed to play the tables. (Wikipedia)

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Disk info for pinball_construction_set.dsk:

File Name: a2_asimov_pinball_construction_set/pinball_construction_set.dsk
Disk Name: DISK VOLUME #1
Physical Size (bytes): 143360
Free Space (bytes): 0
Used Space (bytes): 143360
Physical Size (KB): 140
Free Space (KB): 0
Used Space (KB): 140
Archive Order: DOS
Disk Format: DOS 3.3
Total Sectors: 560
Free Sectors: 0
Used Sectors: 560
Tracks On Disk: 35
Sectors On Disk: 16

Disk directory for pinball_construction_set.dsk:

a2_asimov_pinball_construction_set/pinball_construction_set.dsk DISK VOLUME #1
* T 000 PINBALL CONSTRUCTION DISK
* T 000 ------------------------------
* T 000
* T 000
* T 000 DEMOS:
* T 000
* B 004 DEMO1.PB
* B 007 DEMO2.PB
* B 008 DEMO3.PB
* B 009 DEMO4.PB
* B 001
DOS 3.3 format; 0 bytes free; 143,360 bytes used.

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Identifier: a2_asimov_pinball_construction_set
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Year: 1983